skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's wrong with down voting to indicate disagreement? I wouldn't have commented unless I had something constructive to say.
Facebook Open Graph: Explicit vs. Passive Sharing
This article sheds some light on the new Open Graph action-property "Explicitly Shared", which promotes OG-actions in News-Feed & Timeline. It also covers how FB is going to marginalize passive Sharing (e.g. automatic sharing as known from Social Reader-Apps). Feedback very much welcome!
Blake Lively : la comédienne en Gucci pour le magazine Allure          
La comédienne Blake Lively a accepté de faire la couverture du magazine Allure. Pour cette occasion, elle arbore une belle robe Gucci. Retrouvez en téléchargement les films de Blake Lively.
This only prevents FB scripts from executing, but you still get the images ( and FB the cookies). So this is not the solution for the paranoid.
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Correct me if I'm wrong. Kickstarter gets 5% of each successfully funded project. So if we open a Kickstarter stat page (http://www.kickstarter.com/help/stats) what will we see there?
319M of successful dollars. 5% of this sum is about $16M.
Kickstarter was founded in 2009 and has got more than $16M in expenses for 3 years? Really?
I really hope that the threat of Apple switching to ARM causes Intel to push Linux as an alternative to OSX.

I'm not holding my breath, but I can only hope.
Music by Yo-Yo Ma
I think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZn_VBgkPNY
First FB Commercial - Facebook | The Things That Connect Us
Soo.. can some of the older people around here tell me why this interview by a freelance writer for the Playboy is better and more comprehensive than everything I've read in a month? Just what exactly happened to journalism?
It's a slightly fatuous question.

Do you mean "[in a world where Samsung or Dell had a public personality like Steve Jobs] would they remove the products from their landing page?" or do you mean "[if Michael Dell died] would Dell remove their products from the landing page?"

If they had someone like Steve they definitely would. They don't, so it doesn't matter.
Or at least have escape get back to the main screen.
He also loses hard by bringing up Israel and Singapore, both of which have done very well by outright nationalizing or heavily subsidizing fields of national importance.
Was thinking something simular... First time I discovered this I was a teenager still using dial-up. And apparently the virus-scanner on the school-pc's couldn't handle it :)
Static If [1]. Would simplify a lot of template code, like generic data structures with optional features.

template <class Entry, bool useParents>
struct AvlTreeHelper {
int balance;
Entry \child[2];
static if (useParents) {
Entry \parent;
}
};

template <...., bool useParents>
void ...::insert (...)
{
...
static if (useParents) {
// fixup parent pointers
}
...
}

Such optional behavior can be achieved with existing C++ features by inheriting specialized template classes, but it makes code very unreadable, especially when you have big functions with small conditional parts inside, or when you have more than one boolean condition.

[1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n332...
One sandbox does not fit all
Pure CSS Tabs sans-JS
Depends who you get. I had been back and forth over the border repeatedly, then one day got refused and missed a convention I had waited a year for.

A few months later, I went back over for a wedding.
Very different. North Korea actually has nuclear weapons for use in their random "thermonuclear wars".
>For the rest of the class, it was Java/.NET certification courses galore.

I wonder why they even bother. And don't forget "In-plant training".
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I actually have it installed. But it couldn't load the video anyway.

More critically, there was no gracious fallback. All I get is a completely broken page with absolutely no outgoing links or any textual content!
It worked. Thanks.
I sure hate it when it's the anniversary of an event and people take the time to remember it.

Keep in mind to many of the people at Apple Steve Jobs was the company, and to many there he was a friend. Generally people do take the opportunity to remember the people they've lost on the day they've lost them.
Your comment would be valid if they actually did try and make money off it, but they're likely going to lose some sales. You probably are missing something if you also think he was just a former CEO, he was a bit more than that to Apple.
I might argue that this makes as much financial sense as it does compassionate sense. Reminding everybody about Steve Jobs being the "heart of the company" every so often is probably very good for Apple's business.
PassK.it: Create, Distribute and Manage Apple Passbook.
Yes; it's Bach's Cello Suite #1. You've probably also heard it in Master and Commander, where it was performed by Yo-yo Ma. It's one of my favorite pieces of string music.
Is it my imagination or did they leave the last note off of this recording?
Same here. But maybe that's just because I'm not a member of this cult.
Using AI for better compression - a quick simple introduction
Didn't Yo-Yo Ma perform a private concert at Steve Jobs' house? I think it was in the biography.
Have you seen the "template type diffing" (http://clang.llvm.org/diagnostics.html) in clang?
Odd, it's not a Linux-wide problem. I'm running a variant of Arch with Chrome 21, worked fine for me.
And I have an app for that: http://itunes.com/apps/fastlists
(apologies for the self promotion).

I found most of the apps available were not suitable for reusable checklists. I should add a clear all checks option though. This is an experiment mostly for me to learn for future apps.

Currently free an minimalist but working on in-app purchases at the moment (existing users won't lose features).
No mention of the iPad or OS X.
Huh, dunno. I haven't gotten around to reading the biography yet. I wouldn't be surprised; they seemed to have a mutual respect for each-other.

Just found out that he performed at the memorial service though.
Completely relying on Twitter too of course!
Heck, Bitcoin, a decentralised peer-to-peer "currency", feels faster. Even if it takes ten minutes to confirm a transaction, and longer to be certain.
Botnet Spotted Silently Scanning IPv4 Address Space For Vulnerable VoIP
I agree, a startup is like a subset of the term business. However the term is used in so many different ways, it's losing the whole idea that you should be gearing up to become a business.
So your issue here isn't a privacy one at all, it's a semantic one.
We reviewed our products as seperate startups. And when we used to pitch them like that, it was fine. People heared us in saying, we're trying to set up multiple businesses. Now people don't know what we mean by startup. It's semantics, yeah, but in general it's far easier to explain what a business is than what a startup is.
curiously, 4629 tweets a second is 4 million a day[1], which is more than the number of rows per day (3 million).

this must be someone not thinking, right? i don't see how they can have less rows than tweets. even with de-duplication of repeated text they still need a key (and timestamp) per tweet.

oh! and it gets worse. the next line says "400 million new tweets a day". that one must be plain wrong (it's a rate 100x higher than the number per second), given that the other two are (comparatively) consistent (it would also mean an average of 3 tweets per day per active user (140 million), and i suspect they define active user to be anyone over 1 tweet per month...).

so the section "by the numbers" contains four items, but only two independent values. and appears to be inconsistent twice.

[1] almost exactly - presumably the per second value is derived from a rough figure for the daily value.
Reasonably certain based on what evidence ? Because its API is slow ?
If I ever move from OSX to Linux then I wouldn’t consider anything but a Thinkpad. Shame I have no idea where my Butterfly went.
site doesn't work in opera (either regular or opera new).

Uncaught exception: TypeError: Cannot convert 'document.body' to object
Error thrown at line 38, column 375 in <anonymous function>() in http://www.igvita.com/slides/2012/devtools-tips-and-tricks/js/slide-deck.js:
Modernizr.load({test:!!document.body.classList&&!!document.body.dataset,nope:['js/polyfills/classList.min.js','js/polyfills/dataset.min.js'],complete:function(){window.slidedeck=new SlideDeck();}});
called from line 38, column 181 in http://www.igvita.com/slides/2012/devtools-tips-and-tricks/js/slide-deck.js:
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Ask HN: Can Facebook lead to a Minority Report like computer system?
I was reading this article on wired

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/10/insider-threat/

Since Facebook is about "What's on your mind". A computer system can surely be created to identify sudden behavioral patterns towards violence. Government must be having feed from many other sources to make this more accurate.

Thoughts?
on HN every technology older than a week who isn't posted by very vocal 19 year old fans at least 4 times per day is 'dying'.
There's no personality cult around any CEO like there was around the Steve.
Sync Multiple Google Calendars on iPhone
FreedomBox: Enabling private conversations online
"When Jobs was ill, Yo Yo Ma came to visit, bringing his 1733 Stradivarius cello and performing a concert in the Jobs’ living room. Jobs, who had been moved to tears by the music, told him, “Your playing is the best argument I’ve ever heard for the existence of God, because I don’t really believe a human alone can do this.” He made Ma promise to play at his funeral".
Have you EVER actually worked on a reasonably sized system ?

Because there are a lot more contributors to request/response performance than just database indexes. Especially when you are at the scale of Paypal.
They really were mostly the same story, or repeats of the same handful of "takes" on it. There were a number of more original posts (that often still repeated the same obituary data as everyone else), but they did not feature on the front page.

It'd have been really nice if the HN votes would have caused one or two generic stories and otherwise the really unique takes on it to rise to the top, but the HN voting system + crowd isn't capable of making such a selection. Indeed you'd need a downvote button, or at least some way of flagging what you consider to be near-duplicates. Reddit does this very well (both because of their system and their crowd), none of the programming/tech subreddits (that I saw) were dominated to exclusion of nearly any other news topic to the extent HN was, that day.

> I guess I always thought flagging was for inappropriate material, scams and obviously false things. Do most people use flagging as a downvote substitute for stories?

That's a bit of a false dichotomy, IMO. What is a downvote for? You downvote inappropriate material, scams, obviously false things, duplicates and low-quality content. Preferably you do not downvote things just for disagreeing with them (just like nobody upvotes things just for agreeing with them, right?).

So in this case, the guy considered all those stories about the same topic (with really minor variations in their "take" on it), to be near-duplicates and flagged them. Now, we don't know what happens to flagged posts really, so at this point anything could have happened: Maybe it flooded some sort of for-manual-review moderation queue which annoyed the mods, or maybe they did understand the reason for the flagging but decided that "NO. HN needs to mourn and the front page will be our shrine!" and bumped up some more Steve stories. The latter is not completely unlikely (even though it probably just were normal user votes), we all have seen stories that appeared or disappeared from the front page that couldn't have been caused by regular votes. So yes, the moderators could have er, moderated things a bit so we'd see one or two generic news stories from quality sources about Steve's death (rightly featuring at the very top), but bumped all other stories that did not offer a significantly different take on the news to the second page, in favour of more original content (which might have also been about Steve, if that really was the only thing people could write and think of that day, as long as it was something worth clicking).
It's in flash, duh.
(I don't mean to sound like an asshole, but nowadays something done in flash is not something done in the browser)
Good news. I hope they start implementing this type of thing (ie not having to show up at the border and hope you've got everything all set) in more visa situations.

If you require a visa to enter the country you should be able to apply ahead of time and know the outcome/be able to appeal if appropriate. Not just hope at the border.
Jobs was a good business man and decent presenter, to compare him to John Lennon is utterly inappropriate.
The only conspiracy theory here that I can dream up is that this is both a fitting tribute to Jobs and a not-so-subtle plea for consumers to associate any new iProducts in the future as ultimately coming some Jobsian level of genious.
Happy Birthday ThinkPad!

Not a fan of their customer service, but my little X121e is the best laptop I've ever used.
>So every time someone important in the tech world dies its ok that the front page is filled with the same story but different from sources?

Sure, if said person is as influential to this community as Steve clearly was.
Wow, linkedin sounds like a place I really want to work!

Billy Madison: "High school is great. I mean I'm learning a lot. And all the kids are treating me very nice. It's great."
Works for me without the GET param. Maybe it's just because you're returning to the page?
I actually thought you were talking about this: https://www.circuitlab.com/

I just came across it the other day, and though I haven't played with it a ton yet, it seems like an extremely useful tool for learning about electronic circuits.
Browser-based here means the browser has the complex duty of delegating all control to the Flash plugin.
I bet they wish he could come back, Maps/Siri/lack of innovation on new products.
Massively impressed with Parses documentation https://parse.com/docs/
Vim: Which Line Am I On? Which Column Am I In?
I emailed you and never heard back. Also I never got chapter 1. Just some sort of 4 part newsletter. It seems a little misleading. (Or did I miss where to download it?)
I always knew the company I work for does cool things with MySQL, but I never knew how far we really have pushed the envelope until I see how much more we push MySQL then the twitters and facebooks of the world. Doing some napkin math I would say our largest cluster of MySQL does about 320 Billion inserts a Day across 80 nodes and some of our nodes can peak at about 200K queries per second ( that would be 16 Million QPS if all the nodes were fully loaded ). Meaning at one of our installs we do the same volume as two facebooks !
German Pirate Party's proposals for copyright reform
Mashery Is the Latest to Be Snared by Craigslist’s Copyright Crusade
This article had way too many buzzwords.

Basically it's an 'intelligent' social media monitoring app with e-commerce features like invoicing and sales monitoring.
The app's site explains it much better: http://mila.com/en/home/
Only a few more years now before the patents run out on the trackpoint, at which point it will be "reimagined" by Apple.
Yes because finding ways to not insert a new row for each tweet is a classic sign of someone not thinking.

From the UI Twitter only shows tweets to the minute so you could imagine that there is an optimisation there for merging retweets with the same text within a 60 second period.
Clearly a solid Dyson sphere is not orbiting its host star, and could eventually drift into the star. However, might it be possible to harvest enough energy from the star to power a propulsion system that keeps the sphere in place?
Explore New York City's 311 data
Why not? PrivNote uses client side encryption, it's easily verifiable by looking at what browser sends to server.
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Out of curiosity, what industry do you work in?
HN has many links to various forms of blogs. Some of those pretend to be journalistic, and might even have real trained experienced journalists doing the writing. But they use page views and clicks as metrics, and so link bait reigns. They want comments, and they use controversialist hyperbole to get those comments.

This is another reason I want micro-payments for any article I read - content producers will realise that I value good journalism enough to actually pay for it.

Longform is an excellent source of better journalism.
F6s Startup Community launches Mentor Shares Agreement Template
> argued mostly out of people's beliefs and ideology, and changing no one's opinions.

With that criterion, we should also flag posts about Apple's patent lawsuits and appstore exclusion disputes :)

Nah, but I get your point. I'm really not interested in the average HNer's position on the global warming debate either. Mostly because the few people that actually are very knowledgeable on the topic (there must be a few) won't get the spotlight they deserve (again, criticism of HN's voting system, but it really sucks for cases like these).

And of course it's not really a typical "core" topic for HN. But actually quite many posts are not "typical" in the way you'd expect, as long as they provide ground for a fruitful and interesting discussion. Which global warming discussions indeed often do not.
What can I do with dynamic typing that I can not do with static typing?
Some of the profitability data is factually wrong. I work at Prezi, and Prezi is profitable, always has been.
Olivia Manning with an IQ of 162 - brainier than Einstein
Show HN: OMG Smackdown, a completely frivolous clojure web app (with source)
Too bad we can't talk Larry Ellison into buying Zynga so 2 steaming piles get flushed at one time.
Microsoft might do it if it was Bill who passed away? Don´t you think?
Profits are what you get when you raised more money than you spent this month.
They cut out a significant portion, but not the last note. It's done more often than not when this prelude is used as backing music.
Nice, and probably you make them lose money for the phone calls, which makes their activity less profitable.
I believe truncate creates sparse files in Linux so that would not work.
>> ... eventually filled up the entire disk and bad things happened

I can only imagine what would have happened. Can you share more details about that.

Also, wonder how the mail servers these days are equipped to handle such attachments. Can someone throw light on that? Is it just plain simple to detect these files?
Performance Monitoring.
Google Wallet: Rub our button, cough 15p for quick read
Real Friend
So, how does seerinteractive make money?
Keep Moving...
Steve was a huge fan apparently. Did a quick search to confirm, found this excerpt from his bio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj4b8oaV0MI
Rio bets it can be Brazil's 'Silicon Beach'
In some cases they store more data than just transaction information. Some people are using PayPal to manage their entire shopping cart. Meaning, that they store basic item information for orders.
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AndroVM Jelly Bean release
There was no evidence presented though, just an appeal to common sense, and common sense is not as useful a guide on these matters as it is made out. Especially in the absence of any evidence, a request for information about background and sources would seem reasonable. Even when evidence is presented, background and sources are still very useful as they can provide information about the likely reliability of evidence.
Ah, that'll do it.
Show HN: Hour Day Week Month Year, a website about recalling memories
Plan 28 now accepting donations
Code testing in Haskell
Zurb Foundation vs. Twitter Bootstrap
Sounds like quite a risky quiche. Did it come with extra crunchy bits?
Unfortunately I do not. This is where that project to store all your browsing history "in the cloud" (preferrably your own "cloud" would have been handy. So you never again miss something and go searching for it again, you know youve seen it -> search in your own history which contains the content right then as it was.
Show me a future prediction that said we'd be using our advanced contraptions primarily for viewing porn.
If you had to boil Steve Jobs's biggest contributions down to a minimum, it's:

* the first genuinely usable, affordable GUI (i.e. the Mac)

* the iPod

* the iPhone

I'd say the Apple ][ is debatably on that list (the first personal computer than "just worked" or something). NeXTStep is a wonderful OS with a lot of Good Stuff in it but it's a piece of a product. The iPod Touch and iPhone are fairly obvious evolutions of the iPhone.

The other missing item isn't an Apple product: Pixar.
noone relies on anything. everybody leverages!
Startups Selling To Startups Is a High Risk Strategy
Can we trust the code that increasingly runs our lives?
> but my little X121e is the best laptop I've ever used.

What do you compare it with? I have one too (but currently dead due to infamous reset loop bug) and I think it is the worst ThinkPad I have owned. The screen is horrible, lackluster build quality and fit'n'finish, so so Linux support and the underside of the keyboard needed to be stuffed with cardboard to type properly. Given the budget price point I don't think it should carry a ThinkPad label at all, it tarnishes the brand.

Edit: I have the AMD Fusion, not the Intel variant.
My understanding is that ketamine processes through the body slowly, so if you take it in reasonably large doses every day, you can saturate your system quite easily, which can lead to crystal formation in soft tissues, which is extremely dangerous. In single extremely large doses, or in regular doses that are small enough for your body to process, it would seem to be very safe however.
Everything coming out now went through him, do you think it really takes a year to develop products? The maps team had been working on the new maps for years. I guess Apple should have invented warp drive in the last year too.
I still can't help but think that the name is a little jab at the added hardware level STM support...
You can also use the same technique to cause a exhaustion on the number of files/inodes. Ie you format a ext4 partition
with crazy number of inodes, then create the zip file containing crazy amount of 0-byte files. Then receiving side has a normal formatted ext3,ext4 partition.
Exhaustion on number of inodes. This is not nice so don't do it.
Here's the github repo: https://github.com/flyingmachine/arenaverse

And here's a walk through the code: http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/programming/dissecting-o...

It uses the popular clojure web framework Noir, as well as Compass for stylesheets and MongoDB.
It looks very interesting, but I feel I'm missing half by seeing just the slides. Is there a video of this talk somewhere?
Because interstellar destructive war is easy (assuming you already have interstellar travel). Just throw rocks really fast.

Assuming hiding is technologically feasible, why take the risk?
Why I Use Foundation Over Bootstrap
You can more easily make type-related coding mistakes that won't be caught until after your app is in the customers' hands.